This school doesn’t just need a new janitor, it needs new students. Bodie California is a ghost town in the Eastern Sierras where the gold mines played out and the people left. [...]

The Watt’s toers might better be called the Rodia Towers after their creator Sabato Rodia. Rodia was an Italian immigrant construction working who built them over the course of 33 years between [...]

These crab traps at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf are a reminder that the wharf is not just about wax museums and cheap t-shirt shops but also still has a working fishing fleet. [...]

The “Blind Faith” is one of the fleet of fishing ships that still ply the waters off San Francisco from Fisherman’s Wharf.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Bethany of the Nevada Tourism Bureau about Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is a high elevation alpine lake on the border of California and Nevada. It is surrounded [...]

San Francisco has some of the best public art of the cities I have visited. This Jazz Mural is on a building at the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue in San [...]

On the left is the iconic Transamerica Pyramid and on the right the building where Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and others founded the movie studio American Zoetrope which produced films such [...]

Notice anything wrong with this picture of Sky Ride at the Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk? I didn’t notice until after I took the pictures that the single rider behind the couple [...]

The Pigeon Point Lighthouse is about halfway between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay on the California Coast. The Lighthouse is also the home to a hostel.

With my zoom lens I was able to catch the expressions on a few kids on the Double Shot ride rising and dropping at Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk. There seems to [...]